Mission-Specific Platforms for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

摘要

Since the inception of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and during the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), scientific ocean drilling has been almost wholly confined to outer-shelf water depths or greater, and there was no capability to drill in ice-covered waters. Consequently, a wide range of targets and environments were inaccessible to scientists. As a clear scientific demand developed to obtain cores from more difficult environments, coring platforms other than those traditionally used by DSDP and ODP were required to achieve scientific goals.